Hi Colin, following up on debian-dpkg@ since others might want to weigh in.
On Tue, 01 Mar 2011, Colin Watson wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed this > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/727106) while doing > a debootstrap test of natty. I think we need to be consistent about the > compatibility symlink being present, since it's a pain to migrate this > from a directory to a symlink, and since I expect there to be software > kicking around for a while that relies on it. I deliberately added it only on upgrade. I understand you want to keep it that way for natty but very few software should look up files directly in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ and those that do should be converted to use dpkg-query --control-path. $ dpkg-query --control-path dpkg-dev md5sums /var/lib/dpkg/info/i386/dpkg-dev.md5sums I think it's perfectly legitimate to have the few offenders fixed in time for wheezy. BTW, what's difficult to move from a directory to a symlink? $ cd /var/lib/dpkg/info $ mv <arch>/* ./ $ rmdir <arch> $ ln -sf . <arch> Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
